Want professional speaker Priscilla Richardson for a meeting or convention?

. . . her for that productivity edge for your people with in-house training?

Absolute guarantee for any appearance:           You have to be satisfied or you don't pay. 

Listed in order: Keynotes, sales/marketing training, communication training

Testimonials, bio & client list at end.

Keynotes for your next meeting

*****The Difficult We Do Immediately. The Impossible Takes a Little Longer.

       Motivation for those meeting challenges. Features building on skills listeners already have mastered for past successes.

*****The Secret of Getting -- And Keeping -- Anybody's Attention About Anything

       How to hit the WIFM (What's in it for me) button every time to gain anyone's attention and cooperation -- even your boss's!

*****ALL Writing & Speaking is Selling!

       The key to selling yourself every day through effective written & spoken communication.

Sales/Marketing Training with Take-Home Value

With all Priscilla Richardson training you get her FREE HOTLine. For questions long after the session is over. Forever.                                                                 FREE drawing for an appropriate motto.                Plus satisfaction guaranteed or you don't pay.

*****Call for Success! How to Tame the Fear Monster of Cold Calling.

       Techniques to calm your nerves, overcome procrastination & make calls recipients welcome and you enjoy.  

            $  How to recognize the lure of procrastination & what to do about it.

            $  Making yourself at ease as you make the cold calls.

            $  How to use a script without sounding as if you are.

            $  Analysis of different results of calling.

            $  Techniques to transform every cold call into warm.

Suitable for breakout sessions.

*****Building Your Business/Practice/Career with Published Articles Even Tho You HATE to Write & Don't have any TIME

Very useful information on how to get started, Melissa Young, Attorney at Law, Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore, Roanoke VA.

       Get on the success wagon! Innovative strategies, action plans and more show the way to FREE media publicity. Publicity to establish the writer as a valuable expert others want to do business with.

        $  How to use marketing analysis to get the results you want.

        $  Insider secrets about how publishing, even internet publishing, really works. 

        $  Ways to exploit articles long after they're published. 

        $  For the time-pressed, easy how-to's to speed article writing or else how to get others to write them for you. Inexpensively.

      $ Plus how to become the subject of articles.

       As a breakout, this session gives participants strategic ideas and action plans. In longer sessions, they plan  their articles, plus have their FREE media campaign strategy ready -- before they leave.

*****The Missing Link in Sales: Effective Listening

       How do you know what your prospect is REALLY thinking? Effective listening will get you much closer to a home run.

           $  Do assumptions that just aren't so kill your sale?

           $  Did you hear what the prospect meant to say?

           $  Are distractions keeping you from hearing the real message the prospect wants you to get?

            $  Did you never cover any of your selling points -- but make the sale anyway?

       This session covers all aspects of listening how-to's to help you turn any conversation with a prospect into a sale. Ka-ching!

      Suitable for breakout sessions or longer workshops.

Communication Training

With all Priscilla Richardson training you get her FREE HOTLine. For questions long after the session is over. Forever.                                                    FREE drawing for an appropriate motto.                PLUS satisfaction guaranteed or you don't pay.

*****Speak for Success! Taming the Fear Monster of Public Speaking                            

A confidence builder for anyone. Ray McKee, Star-Spangled Specialties, Roanoke VA

       Managers & supervisors WILL have to give presentations. But they DON'T HAVE to be limited by fear of speaking. They can have confidence.

       This session delivers freedom from speaking agony in one day. By taming that awful red-eyed, sharp-fanged fear monster. By replacing it with confidence.             

Shaking hands? Dry mouth? Lurching gut? The wobbles? Can't get to sleep the night before?

       Save time & money -- your people will see results in just one day. You'll see their change to confidence. They'll get 

            $  Relaxation exercises

            $  Power breathing training

            $  Power voice how-to's

            $  Success visualization

            $  Amazingly easy but effective techniques to deal with every symptom or problem. By someone who has had to tame her own fear monster.

All this plus interactive exercises & help with spontaneous speech construction too.

& If desired, coaching for a special presentation.

       Practical help with real take-home value: Participants can start using it right away.

       Compare the high cost of fear of speaking with the low cost of prevention!

*****Write for Success! Write Better & Faster 

You’ve made me commit to rethinking my current written communications. Rachel Owens, Massachusetts Mutual, Newport Beach CA

Turn your ideas about writing UPside down!

Yes, your people can save time & money & stress with easier writing.

       $  Meet deadlines easily,

       $  Increase writing efficiency,

       $  Improve the company's public image.

Never any boring grammar lessons. But systems for more productive writing, systems to turn your ideas about writing UPside down. 

With

           $ Free document analysis beforehand.

                      $ Total customization, with your materials used as exercises.

                      $ The Golden Rule of Solid Gold Writing, to help shrink any writing problem.

                       $ Power words in power sentences to compel readers.

                       $ Techniques to get started fast and finished on time.

                        $ Simple persuasion methods.

                        $ Clear & easy ways to get your point over and still save time.

Compare the low cost of prevention with the high cost of confusing & unclear writing! 

Building Your Career/Business/Practice with Published Articles Even Though You HATE to Write & Don't Have TIME.

See above in Sales/Marketing Training section.

Teamwork's Missing Link: Effective Listening.

Since people forget about 45% of what they hear, your team members are working with half of the information & directions they need!

           $  Killer assumptions that keep you from hearing.

           $  Discerning the difference between what someone meant to say & what she did say.

           $  Keeping distractions down and attention up -- techniques.

            $ Developing the freedom to take notes and ask questions.

            $ The roll of feedback in effective listening.

       This session covers all aspects of listening how-to's to help you listen well and get what you need for efficient teamwork and outstanding results.

      Suitable for breakout sessions or longer workshops.

What others say about Priscilla Richardson. . .

Corporate comment on training

Ms. Richardson conducted a seminar for Litton Network Access Systems entitled "Speak for Success." The seminar was very successful due to Ms Richardson’s expertise. She began by creating a relaxing atmosphere for the attendees, encouraging their participation with her and with each other. Her practical exercises demonstrated the positive techniques for public speaking that we already possess.

Tracy H. Nester, Senior Human Resources Administrator     Litton Network Access Systems    Roanoke VA

Cathy Greenberg, Director of Advertising                                   The Roanoke Times     Roanoke VA

Association comment on training

Ruth Ludeman, Executive Director                                       National Association of Executive Secretaries & Administrative Assistants      Fall Church VA

Keynote comments

Melinda M. Laughon   Executive Women International       Roanoke VA

Thank you for speaking to the Association for Facilities Engineering [on "Building Your career with Published Articles"]. For engineers, this is all new material. Several faithful members came without expectations of learning anything, but left enlightened on the professional opportunity that being published presents. Even introverts can excel at technical writing and get ahead in the workplace.

Ellen Holland     Spectrum Engineers PC    Roanoke VA

Information about Priscilla Richardson:

"recovering attorney"

mean?

Means . . . she’s licensed to practice in two states but would much rather help people write & speak with less pain. "There's a tremendous need that's just not being met," Priscilla Richardson says. "Look at all the people you know who would rather die than get up to make even a short report to a group. Or who moan and sweat over writing that report. It's not easy to find someone who can help you communicate successfully."

Priscilla also helps with listening, giving feedback, and other communication topics.

"I started by doing," she says. "First I published articles as a freelancer for magazines such as Woman’s Day, and still write for the Blue Ridge Business Journal and the Roanoke Times." Today, with over one hundred forty articles (and more coming all the time) she writes in print media as varied as Successful Meetings and The Practicing CPA, and in e-zines such as Worldprofit Magazine and the Prosperous Living Crusader.

She offers a free monthly email newsletter with tips & action plans to help you solve communication problems. To subscribe to Communication Insights, send her your email address.

For clients such as Hanover Direct, Litton Network Access Systems and the National Association of Women Business Owners, she likes to start by telling audiences "their ideas will be turned up-side-down." She smiles. "I lead them into new — and easier — approaches."

Entrepreneur & Successful Meetings magazines, and the Roanoke Times, Fincastle Herald & Blue Ridge Business Journal all have publicized her training and speaking skills. She’s also a member of the National Speakers Association, Authors Guild, & American Society for Training & Development.

"I like to leave my motto behind me," Priscilla says: "Success is 1% inspiration & 99% communication!"©

Copyright 2000 All rights reserved.   Priscilla Richardson guru@writespeakforsuccess.com